{"id":6,"date":"2015-02-27T21:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-10-16T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T17:24:33","slug":"singing-on-the-heavy-side-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/singing-on-the-heavy-side-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing on the Heavy Side of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio native John Deever taught English from 1993-95 as a member of the first group of English teachers sent by the Peace Corps to the newly independent country of Ukraine. His essay &#8220;To Peel Potatoes&#8221; won the 1996 Peace Corps Experience Award given by RPCV Writers and Readers and appeared in <em>Peace Corps: The Great Adventure<\/em>. He later worked for ISAR: Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia, a nonprofit environmental organization that supported independent citizen initiatives across the former Soviet Union. He is a freelance writer and editor living in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchase\u00a0<em>Singing on the Heavy Side of the World<\/em><em>: A Peace Corps Ukraine Story<\/em>\u00a0(2002) from xLibris publishers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Singing-Heavy-Side-World-Ukraine-ebook\/dp\/B079KHF72J\">Buy it here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio native John Deever taught English from 1993-95 as a member of the first group of English teachers sent by the Peace Corps to the newly independent country of Ukraine. His essay &#8220;To Peel Potatoes&#8221; won the 1996 Peace Corps Experience Award given by RPCV Writers and Readers and appeared in Peace Corps: The Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deever.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}